Various methods have been used to eliminate or control feral cats from selected areas, often islands. These include poisoned baits, biological agents (e.g. feline panleucopaenia), shooting, trapping and exclusion fencing, often applied in combination (e.g. Veitch 1985, 1991; van Rensbury et al. 1987; Coman 1991; Newsome 1991; Bloomer & Bester 1992). These techniques can be labourand area-intens...

This article deals with applications of optimal control to aerospace problems with a focus on modern geometric optimal control tools and numerical continuation techniques. Geometric optimal control is a theory combining optimal control with various concepts of differential geometry. The ultimate objective is to derive optimal synthesis results for general classes of control systems. Continuatio...

The aim of the study was to determine reliability and factorial validity of six basketball shooting accuracy tests. Fifty five healthy basketball players (age 19.1 ± 3.1 years; body mass 83.4 ± 12.5 kg; height 189.1 ± 8.2 cm; body fat percentage 13.1 ± 4.1) from four Bosnian basketball teams participated in this research. The applied tests have been constructed in order to measure basketball sh...

The use of lead bullets and shot at shooting ranges is under increasing scrutiny as a potentially significant source of Pb pollution. This study assessed Pb contamination in the soils of two shooting ranges (TRR and MPR) in Florida. Soil samples were collected from the two ranges and analyzed for total Pb to determine Pb contamination. Selected spent bullets and berm soil samples were mineralog...

Boundary value problems arise in many applications, and shooting methods are one approach to approximate the solution of such problems. A Shooting method transforms a boundary value problem into a sequence of initial value problems, and takes the advantage of the speed and adaptivity of initial value problem solvers. The implementation of continuous Runge-Kutta methods with defect control for i...

We examined the effects of visual control training on expert wheelchair basketball shooting, a skill more difficult than in regular basketball, as players shoot from a seated position to the same rim height. The training consisted of shooting with a visual constraint that forced participants to use target information as late as possible. Participants drove under a large screen that initially bl...

Shooting training is associated with exposure to a considerable amount of unique noise. We wanted to evaluate noise exposure during such training. Our observations especially apply to professional sport shooters, but they are also valid for shooting coaches/instructors. We collected acoustic signals in 10-, 25- and 50-m as well as open-air shooting ranges. The recorded material was analysed wit...

There are two basic strategies used for carrying out the illumi nation computation the gathering strategy in which light reaching a point from all directions is simulated and the shooting strategy in which light emitted from a point in all directions is simulated Based on the strategy used all the existing methods can be classi ed into two broad categories namely gathering methods and shooting ...

In this paper, we present a variational integrator that is based on an approximation of the Euler–Lagrange boundary-value problem via Taylor’s method. This can be viewed as a special case of the shooting-based variational integrator. The Taylor variational integrator exploits the structure of the Taylor method, which results in a shooting method that is one order higher compared to other shooti...

To determine what factors are associated with successful free throw (FT) shooting in wheelchair basketball and to examine the relationship between shooting mechanics and player classification, a biomechanical analysis of clean shots was undertaken. Significant differences were observed between the player classes in FT shooting mechanics employed for a clean shot. Players from Classes 1 and 2 te...